* 1955 – Rob Epstein, American filmmaker and journalist

* 1955 – Keith Hunter Jesperson, Canadian serial killer

* 1955 – Cathy Jones, Canadian comedian

* 1955 – Blind Mississippi Morris, American blues musician

* 1955 – Michael Rooker, American actor

* 1955 – The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.

* 1955 – Nicolas Hulot, French journalist

* 1955 – Dimitra Liani, Greek air hostess, widow of Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou

* 1955 – Laura Fygi, Dutch singer

* 1955 – Robert Richardson, American cinematographer

* 1955 – Diana Scarwid, American actress

* 1956 – After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena series.

* 1868 – Paul Claudel, French poet ( d. 1955 )

* 1881 – Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1955 )

* 1955 – Gregory Bryant-Bey, American convicted murderer ( d. 2008 )

* 1955 – Rusty Magee, American composer ( d. 2003 )

* 1955 – Peter Schmuck, American columnist

* 1955 – John E. Sweeney, American politician

* 1955 – Keith Ahlers, English race car driver

* 1955 – Hideo Fukuyama, Japanese race car driver

* 1955 – Paul Greengrass, English director

* 1865 – John Radecki, Australian artist ( d. 1955 )

* 1955 – Caleb Carr, American author and historian

* 1955 – Tim Dunigan, American actor

* 1955 – Tony Godden, English footballer

* TIB = The Interpreter ’ s Bible, The Holy Scriptures in the King James and Revised Standard versions with general articles and introduction, exegesis, exposition for each book of the Bible in twelve volumes, George Arthur Buttrick, Commentary Editor, Walter Russell Bowie, Associate Editor of Exposition, Paul Scherer, Associate Editor of Exposition, John Knox Associate Editor of New Testament Introduction and Exegesis, Samuel Terrien, Associate Editor of Old Testament Introduction and Exegesis, Nolan B. Harmon Editor, Abingdon Press, copyright 1955 by Pierce and Washabaugh, set up printed, and bound by the Parthenon Press, at Nashville, Tennessee, Volume XI, Philippians, Colossians and Exegesis by Francis W. Beare, Exposition by G. Preston MacLeod, Thessalonians, Pastoral Epistles First and Second Epistles to Timothy, and the Epistle to Titus, Philemon, Hebrews

Dole was initiated as a Freemason of Russell Lodge No. 177, Russell, Kansas on April 19, 1955.

In 1955, Russell Rogers and Leonard D ' Andrea of Homestead Park, Pennsylvania applied for, and in 1959 were granted, U. S. Patent # 2, 883, 195 for the hexahexaflexagon, under the title " Changeable Amusement Devices and the Like.

* Russell Johnson, actor, including It Came from Outer Space ( 1953 ) and This Island Earth ( 1955 ); best known to audiences as " The Professor " on Gilligan's Island TV series

In 1955, he moved to New York, where he worked with bandleader and theorist George Russell.

Bohemond also appears in the historical novel Silver Leopard by F. Van Wyck Mason ( 1955 ), the short story " The Track of Bohemond " in the collection The Road of Azrael by Robert E. Howard ( 1979 ), and in the fantastical novel Pilgermann by Russell Hoban ( 1983 ).

Ebsen received wide television exposure when he played Georgie Russell, a role based on a historical person and companion to frontiersman Davy Crockett, in the wildly popular Disneyland television miniseries Davy Crockett ( 1954 – 1955 ).

( 1955 ) " Health, Culture and Community: Case Studies of Public Reactions to Health Programs " New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

* Heymann, Frederick G. ( 1969 ), John Zizka & the Hussite Revolution, Russell & Russell New York ( 1955 ).

# Julian Hugh Russell ( b. 1955 ), second cousin of Francis Anthony and Hugo Russell

* Russell Brown and James H M Henderson, 1983, " The Mass Production and Distribution of HeLa Cells at Tuskegee Institute ", 1953 – 1955.

Originally titled My Best Girl, it is based on the 1955 novel Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis and a 1956 Broadway play, by Lawrence and Lee, that starred Rosalind Russell.

The musical was inspired by the success of the 1956 Broadway comedy and subsequent 1958 film version starring Rosalind Russell, as well as the 1955 novel by Patrick Dennis.

* Admiral Sir Guy Russell, 1953 – 1955

In 1955 Albert Einstein, Bertrand Russell, and other eminent scientists issued a manifesto urging scientists to " think in a new way " about their moral responsibilities in the nuclear age.

In 1955, Powell, also a member of the World Federation of Scientific Workers, added his signature to the Russell-Einstein Manifesto put forward by Bertrand Russell, Albert Einstein and scientist Joseph Rotblat, and was involved in preparations for the first Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs.

* Don Russell ( 1955 – 1967 )

It was founded in 1957 by Joseph Rotblat and Bertrand Russell in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Canada, following the release of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto in 1955.

The 1955 Gentlemen Marry Brunettes used only the book's name and starred Russell and Jeanne Crain playing characters who were the daughters of Dorothy Shaw.

* Underwater !, a 1955 movie starring Jane Russell